AT ABOU-ZABEL. 
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completed one of the last edition of the “ Treatise on the Foot of 
the Horse.’' 
At the end of June 1832, the veterinary school of Abou- 
Zabel contained eighty students, and stables for one hundred 
sick animals, with room to class them according to their various 
diseases. The anatomy and diseases of all domesticated animals 
were taught; the exterior conformation of the horse, and all 
surgical operations on quadrupeds ; and the instruction which 
they received was illustrated by practice on the diseases of sick 
animals, a great number of whom were always in the infirmary 
of the school: the students attended on lectures on botany, 
pharmacy, and the practice of physic in the school of human 
medicine. In addition to this, lessons were given in the French 
language by the two gentlemen already mentioned, and who con¬ 
tributed so much to the prosperity of the three establishments 
formed at Abou-Zabel.” 
M. Girard then alludes to the annual examination of the 
three schools—of human and of veterinary medicine, and of 
pharmacy; and he properly adds, that the prosperity of each 
must be assured by such an union—that the success obtained by 
the one must turn immediately to the advantage of the other—that 
a comparison between the diseases of the human being and the 
brute creation would be presented every day, and, as it were, 
every moment; and that these being observed and studied through 
all their stages and changes, could not fail of advancing a know¬ 
ledge of medicine, and placing it on sure ground: and he con¬ 
cludes this portion of his report by saying, and truly so, that “ the 
benefits resulting from these two schools, united by their locality 
and by perfect good feeling between their professors, must be 
incalculable.” 
He returns to M. Hamont, and says that, “ he was educated 
at the school of Alfort, in which he always distinguished him¬ 
self at the quarterly examinations; that he was appointed private 
teacher of pharmacy in 1823, and obtained his diploma as vete¬ 
rinary surgeon in 1824; that during his abode in Egypt his 
whole time was devoted to the cultivation of veterinary science, 
and that his correspondence with his former instructor was con- 
